The Wife of the Centaur

The Wife of the Centaur is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by King Vidor, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer shortly after it formed from a merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Mayer Pictures in April 1924. Metro had acquired the movie rights to Cyril Hume's debut novel Wife of a Centaur (Doran, 1923) in November.[1]

The Wife of the Centaur
Directed byKing Vidor
Written byDouglas Z. Doty
Cyril Hume
StarringEleanor Boardman
CinematographyJohn Arnold
Edited byHugh Wynn
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn
Release date
  • December 1, 1924 (1924-12-01)
Running time
81 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent

It is now considered to be a lost film.[2][3] A few seconds of Boardman in this film (from around 3:07 to 3:10) is included in Twenty Years After (1944), a promotional short made by MGM to celebrate its 20th anniversary.

Plot

A novelist, Jeffery Dwyer (Gilbert), imagines that he has been reincarnated as a creature from Greek mythology. He is romantically torn between the emotionally mature Joan (Boardman) and a less stable “jazz girl” Inez (Pringle). Jeffery marries Inez, but a love triangle forms when he returns repeatedly to Joan.[4]

Cast

Footnotes
  1. "Cub Reporter Gets $25,000 For Movie Rights To Novel". The Sun (Baltimore). November 23, 1923. Dateline "New York, Nov. 22 (Special)".   "Movie Facts and Fancies". Boston Daily Globe. December 1, 1923, page 2.
  2. "Progressive Silent Film List: The Wife of the Centaur". Silent Era. Retrieved March 26, 2009.
  3. "The Wife of the Centaur". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved January 10, 2014.
  4. Durgnat and Simmon 1988 p. 342

Sources
  • Durgnat, Raymond and Simmon, Scott. 1988. King Vidor, American. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 0-520-05798-8


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